The first in a series of two articles where I look at the preview (called 1711) of System Center 1801 is now online at 4sysops. In this article I look at Virtual Machine Manager and what this new release brings to the table. The tl;dr is Windows Server 2016 and 1709 support, shielded Linux VMs, Software Load Balancer (SLB) support, easy encryption of VM networks and management of ARM VMs in Azure. Read it here.

If you need somewhere to store enormous amounts of data and the ability to easily analyse it – you can use Azure Data Lake. This article for 4Sysops gives an overview of the two different services that make up ADL and what you can use it for. Read it here.